Erving Goffman Identity Quotes

#1. Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

Bill McKibben

#2. A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

Paul Valery

#3. Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Erving Goffman

#4. The way one was brought up isn't an excuse for rude behavior.

Judith Martin

#5. The issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

Erving Goffman

#6. Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

Starhawk

#7. Never touch another man's button.

Blake Shelton

#8. their lambs spent the whole summer loose in the highlands without any significant losses. They produced wool of consistently high quality, and were easy to feed and simple to handle. It was no surprise that other breeders

Sarah Lark

#9. We were great mates. We didn't really go out together because we never really had the time to go out. But we were with each other all the time anyway because we were working all the time. We could sit down and talk for hours, and we still can. We just understood each other.

Dannii Minogue

#10. Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

Erving Goffman